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    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “All that you touch
    You Change.

    All that you Change
    Changes you.

    The only lasting truth
    is Change.

    God
    is Change.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler
    tags: change, god
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.
    That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler
    tags: writing, writing-process
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.”
    ― Octavia Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories
    tags: creative-process, habit, inspiration, persistence, writing
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “Beware:
    At war
    Or at peace,
    More people die
    Of unenlightened self-interest
    Than of any other disease.”
    ― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents
    tags: death, peace, science-fiction, self-interest, selfishness, unenlightened-self-interest, war
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    Tupac Shakur
    “I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.”
    ― Tupac Shakur
    tags: hiphop, inspirational, music
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    Maya Angelou
    “There were people who went to sleep last night,
    poor and rich and white and black,
    but they will never wake again.

    And those dead folks would give anything at all
    for just five minutes of this weather
    or ten minutes of plowing.

    So you watch yourself about complaining.

    What you're supposed to do
    when you don't like a thing is change it.
    If you can't change it,
    change the way you think about it.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: change, life-lessons, transformation
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    T.D. Jakes
    “No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!”
    ― T D Jakes
    tags: christian, god, love, marriage, men, religion, spirituality, women
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    Barbra Streisand
    “Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”
    ― Barbra Streisand
    tags: husbands, marriage, men, men-and-women, wives, women
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  • #10
    “A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
    ― Dave Meurer
    tags: couples, marriage
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  • #11
    Groucho Marx
    “I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: humor, marriage
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: enemies, explanations, friends
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: god, heart, humanity, inspirational, prayer, religion, souls, weakness
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: hate, love, religion, sin, sinners
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  • #17
    An intelligent person can rationalize anything; a wise person doesn't try.
    “An intelligent person can rationalize anything; a wise person doesn't try.”
    ― Jen Knox, Chaos Magic
    tags: fiction-writer, flash-fiction, intelligence, jen-knox, philosphy-of-life, psychology, wisdom
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
    tags: grief
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston
    tags: inspirational
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings
    tags: inspirational-life
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “one finds great comfort in good dinners”
    ― zora neale hurston
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Make the attempt if you want to, but you will find that trying to go through life without friendship, is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
    tags: consequences-life-lessons, power, selfish-motives
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston
    tags: laughter, life, sorrow, wrapped-in-rainbows
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  • #30
    Langston Hughes
    “Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.

    I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.”
    ― Langston Hughes
    tags: life, simplicity
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